The psychosomatic approach to heart disease. A study in premodern medicine.
McMahon CE.
Chest.Chest.1976 Apr;69(4):531-7.
Prior to the discovery of the circulation of the blood and the advent of modern mind-body dualism, heart disease was conceived as invariably psychosomatic. Familiar vestiges of premodern theory are found in such expressions as "bighearted," "warmhearted," "brokenhearted," and so on. The original med